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Valve paid a bunch of publishers to sell their game exclusively on steam

Fuck yes. Here’s Darwinia going steam exclusive back in the day. Pretty scummy Epic behavior isn’t it?

https://forums.introversion.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=40203

and refused to implement basic features (like a shopping cart) in their UI?

Fun fact: itch.io doesn’t have a shopping cart, Google Play doesn’t have a shopping cart either, and they’re both established (itch is even beloved despite that shortcoming, I personally like them). Only scummy Epic gets this complaint constantly lodged against them. Curious.

Then bitched about how everyone more successful than them was evil and wrong?

I don’t care about their word battles, sorry.

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Here’s Darwinia going steam exclusive back in the day. Pretty scummy Epic behavior isn’t it?

I’ve been there during this time and this is the first time I’m hearing of this game as well as Valve doing this. Thanks for bringing it up. Any more examples?

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You’re welcome!

I’m not sure of any more examples, just like you I’ve only heard about it lately after Epic spawned. I’m NOT hoping to find more of this scummy behavior from Valve, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I did.

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One is a bunch? It also seems as though that particular game wasn’t even on any other storefront, just their own website. Hardly seems comparable.

Itch is also a much different beast, it’s less a storefront and more a platform for developers to promote and sell their games independently. The pages seem designed and run by the devs and not Itch. It would make sense to not have a cart with that kind of decentralized design. You’re not buying from Itch, youre buying from developers themselves.

Im glad to see you only care about your own word battles instead of epics. Weird that they seem so parallel, though…

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